Karzai also met Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to discuss the international peace-keeping force which is set to arrive in Afghanistan shortly after the new administration is sworn in. Italy ...

Afghanistan's former president Hamid Karzai on Sunday called on the Taliban regime to allow girls and women to attend school and university, as the country marked 105 years of independence. Karzai ...

Former president Hamid Karzai urged authorities to reopen schools and universities for all girls in Afghanistan as country marked ...

Hundreds of Taliban fighters have taken over several villages in the same southern Afghanistan province where about 400 Taliban militants recently escaped from prison, local officials and police said.

Afghan president fears his own son may flee the country. KABUL, Afghanistan Sept. 28, 2010 -- The U.S. and Afghan governments imagine a point in the not too distant future when American troops are ...

The top senator on the Armed Services Committee is urging President Obama to stop insisting that Afghan President Hamid Karzai sign a post-war agreement with the U.S. and instead let a “more reliable” ...

Last weekend, when Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for reduced military operations and an outright end to night raids by U.S.-led forces, he made one person particularly unhappy. The remarks came ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Jan. 28 -- Peter Jennings interviewed Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai, in Washington, D.C. today, after President Bush welcomed Karzai to the White House and invited ...

Does U.S. Understand the Karzai Problem? Dexter Filkins, in a long New York Times Magazine profile of top Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal, worries that American forces don't ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been secretly meeting with Taliban operatives in a bid to negotiate peace while refusing to sign a U.S. security deal, a move that is not only testing already ...

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has been engaging in “clandestine contacts” with the Taliban in an effort to reach a peace agreement, the New York Times reports. Citing unnamed Western and Afghan ...